1. LISA KING
311 Spring Meadow Pkwy, Branson, MO 65616 H: 417-544-4199 ♦ lisafreelance7@gmail.com
ProfessionalSummary
I am a remote freelance writer, developmental editor, and project manager with a diverse
background in the online academic publishing world. A certified educator, I specialize in writing
and editing teaching lessons, passages, and assessment items based on Common Core State
Standards and Blooms DOK levels. From K–12 publishing to teaching curriculum, I have
developed supplemental online content for various respective clients. In addition, I have written
RN, BSN nursing content for online nursing courses.
Skills
Microsoft Office; Adobe; Dictera, Learnosity, and Wams (interactive authoring platforms)
Work History
Project Manager/Writer/Editor, 12/2011 to Current
The ResearchMasters
*Project Manager Positions
High School Literature Teacher Edition Textbook (Pearson)
Smarter Balanced Program (McGraw Hill)
MNL Nursing Courses (Pearson)
Performance Tasks Program (McGraw Hill)
Item Writing Projects (various publishers)
Workbook Lessons K-6 (Carson Dellosa)
*Editorial Positions
CCI ELA Literature TE Textbook based on CCSS (Pearson)
K-6 PARRC Items based on CCSS (McGraw Hill)
Barron’s Common Core Success Workbook K-6 (Barron’s)
Journey’s K TE Textbook with CCSS-based content (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
2. Interactive whiteboard lesson grades K-12 (Carson Dellosa)
ATI Remediation Development Project (ATI)
ELA Items aligned to CCSS (Pearson)
ELA Items aligned to CCSS for (Riverside)
*Writer Positions
Entire ELA Common Core Success Workbook for K (Barron’s)
Lesson for Barron’s ELA Common Core Success Workbook 1-4
K-3 Performance Tasks based on CCSS
Kindergarten teaching lessons with CCSS-based content (HMH)
BSN nursing storyboards and assessment items (Jones and Bartlett)
K-8 Assessment Items for Smarter Balanced Program ELA Claim 4 (McGraw Hill)
RN and BSN content and storyboards for JBL Nursing Courses (JBL)
NCLEX Assessment Items (Pearson)
Literature Searcher, 11/2016 to 12/2016
Small Planet
Search for permissionable literature/selections for grades 6-8
ELS Editor/Assessment Writer, 04/2013 to 07/2016
Tighepub
Edited MS-HS ESL Literature Textbooks
Created HS assessment items based on CCSS
Searched for permissionable passages/selections for 10-11th grade to be used to create
CCSS questions
Performance Task Writer, 11/2014 to 02/2015
Symmetry Education
Wrote K-3 Performance Tasks based on CCSS
Wrote K-3 grade appropriate passages
Wrote K-3 assessment items
Writer, 03/2013 to 04/2014
3. Trivium Ed
Developed quizzes for informational articles (Newsela.com)
Certified Teacher, 01/1997 to 01/2009
Davis County Community School – Bloomfield, IA
Substituted for teachers, Grades K–12Developed CCSS-based item writing
Developed CCSS-based educational content for K–6
Education
Bachelor of Arts: Education, 1998
Buena Vista University - Storm Lake, IA